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Elizabeth Enright

Born

in Oak Park, Illinois, The United States

September 17, 1907

Died

June 08, 1968

Genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction

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Elizabeth Wright Enright Gillham was an American writer of children's books, an illustrator, writer of short stories for adults, literary critic and teacher of creative writing. Perhaps best known as the Newbery Medal-winning author of Thimble Summer (1938) and the Newbery runner-up Gone-Away Lake (1957), she also wrote the popular Melendy quartet (1941 to 1951). A Newbery Medal laureate and a multiple winner of the O. Henry Award, her short stories and articles for adults appeared in many popular magazines and have been reprinted in anthologies and textbooks.
In 2012 Gone-Away Lake was ranked number 42 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly with primarily U.S. audience. The first two Mele ...more

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Average rating: 4.1 · 45,301 ratings · 3,505 reviews · 36 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Saturdays (The Melendy Family, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 10,703 ratings — published 1941 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gone-Away Lake (Gone-Away Lake, #1) by Elizabeth Enright, Joe Krush (Illustrator) 4.12 avg rating — 8,793 ratings — published 1957 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thimble Summer 3.76 avg rating — 8,237 ratings — published 1938 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Four-Story Mistake (The Melendy Family, #2) 4.31 avg rating — 5,327 ratings — published 1942 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Then There Were Five (The Melendy Family, #3) 4.29 avg rating — 4,859 ratings — published 2015 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spiderweb for Two: A Melendy Maze (The Melendy Family, #4) 4.04 avg rating — 3,646 ratings — published 1951 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Return to Gone-Away (Gone-Away Lake, #2) by Elizabeth Enright, Beth Krush (Illustrator), Joe Krush (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating — 3,084 ratings — published 1961 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tatsinda by Elizabeth Enright, Katie Thamer Treherne (Illustrator) 4.10 avg rating — 252 ratings — published 1963 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Melendy Family 4.64 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 1947 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sea Is All Around 4.12 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1940 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Elizabeth Enright

The Melendy Family (4 books)
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Elizabeth Enright

4.21 avg rating — 24,728 ratings

Gone-Away Lake (2 books)
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Elizabeth Enright,

Beth Krush (Illustrator),

Joe Krush (Illustrator)

4.14 avg rating — 11,877 ratings

Quotes by Elizabeth Enright (?)

“Grownups! Everyone remembers them. How strange and even sad it is that we never became what they were: beings noble, infallible, and free. We never became them. One of the things we discover as we live is that we never become anything different from what we are. We are no less ourselves at forty than we were at four, and because of this we know grownups as Grownups only once in life: during our own childhood. We never meet them in our lives again, and we will miss them always.”
― Elizabeth Enright, Doublefields: Memories and Stories

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“Now isn't that nice!' said the old lady. 'If cousins are the right kind, they're best of all: kinder than sisters and brothers, and closer than friends.”
― Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

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“He couldn't stop smelling the air in great, deep, loud sniffs. It was so delicious. It smelled of water, and mud, and maple trees, and autumn.”
― Elizabeth Enright, The Four-Story Mistake

tags: aromas, autumn

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